• Margot Robbie
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        231 year ago

        It does! But this is for people looking for more alternatives. Different people like different things.

        • Refurbished Refurbisher
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          1 year ago

          Fair enough.

          Also, speaking of alternatives, people should check out O3DE. It’s based on Amazon Lumberyard, which itself it based on CryEngine, but it’s FOSS and managed by the Linux Foundation.

          Interestingly enough, Epic Games is a premier member, along with many other companies.

          • @[email protected]
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            151 year ago

            Epic games funds a lot of open source game projects, they’ve funded blender and Godot multiple times.

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                81 year ago

                The more game developers there are, the more potential talent they have. The more game developers there are, the more games there are to sell.

                They also understand that Unreal isn’t super accessible for beginners.

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                  Could also be to prevent a potential antitrust lawsuit, since they have a de facto monopoly on AAA game engines.

                  Kind of like Google funding Mozilla.

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        Pretty standard really. You don’t want contributions to the codebase come under questionable copyright concerns, or the original creator to revoke the code 4 years later causing huge headaches potentially.

        You typically have to sign these types of CLA’s whenever you need to contribute to any serious project. I’ve had to do it for Google and Microsoft recently, and I’ve done it for various other open source projects as well.

        Still that shouldn’t concern users/gamedevs as they don’t contribute to the engine code typically. Only if they want to upstream changes back into the engine publicly they would need to sign it ofcourse